Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, which was warm but not yet sizzling, some congressional tempers sizzled last week like pork fat dropped in a skillet...
...that by using these terms we are talking ourselves into a good, all-out depression. This sort of talk scares customers . . . They tighten up their purse strings and wait for more price cuts. Businessmen begin to worry and slash payrolls needlessly. Pretty soon the scare builds up like a snowball going downhill...
...week for the young. The school year was over almost everywhere; armies of cherub-like little fiends immediately began skinning knees, wading through poison ivy and falling out of trees. The 1949 crop of high school and college graduates walked out into a world that was getting colder for job-hunters all the time...
...Trustee. A second choice but a first-rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which...
...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...